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Mystic Craft was a technique of an Artisan Ritualist who worked in one of countless different ways to perform their art. [1]

Known Mystic Crafts[]

  • Alchemy (Intelligence): those artisans who studied chemistry and alchemy together, giving them exceptional insight into the creation of potions
    • Distilled Invocations: sealed the power of an invocation into a bottle that could be imbibed or thrown
    • Effervescent Creations: skilled artisans created potions of enhanced power
  • Charm Creation (Intelligence): those artisans who had the skills and discipline needed to imbue objects with spiritual power
    • Talisman Creation: those artisans who used their calligraphy set to create a basic charm
    • Charm Arsenal: skilled artisans created charms of enhanced power
  • Enchanting Performance (Charisma): those who were focused on creating transcendent, ephemeral beauty
    • Stirring Performance: those artisans who weaved a tempo with their invocations, building to a powerful crescendo
    • Encore: skilled artisans enhanced the power of the cretures affected by their invocations
  • Illusory Artifice (Intelligence): those artisans who were skilled in creating illusory façades, elemental facsimiles of items, or even tangible things
    • Eye for Refinement: those artisans who empowered their illusions or summoning invocations
    • Arcane Edge: skilled artisans used more frequently their powers
  • Mystic Calligraphy (Wisdom): those who infused an invocation into a ward using calligraphy and specially prepared paper
    • Ward Creation: those artisan who used a calligraphy set to create wards, preparing an invocation to take shape when a specified condition was met
    • Wardmaster: skilled artisans created more powerful wards
  • Spiritual Animation (Charisma): those artisans who invested spiritual power into small constructs called Shikigami, the art bind animating energy into paper
    • Shikigami Creation: those artisans who used their calligraphy set to create a shikigami, a paper servant invested with a portion of their spiritual power that could act as spy, messenger, and ally in combat
    • Army of Ink and Paper: skilled artisans were able to have up to three shikigami at a time

References

  1. Adventures in Rokugan, pp. 92-93


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